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Paper 29

The Universe Power Directors

Universal Censor

1. The Seven Supreme Power Directors

29:1.1The Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors are the phys­i­cal-en­ergy reg­u­la­tors of the grand uni­verse. Their cre­ation by the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its is the first re­corded in­stance of the deriva­tion of semi­ma­te­rial progeny from true spirit an­ces­try. When the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its cre­ate in­di­vid­u­ally, they bring forth highly spir­i­tual per­son­al­i­ties on the an­gelic or­der; when they cre­ate col­lec­tively, they some­times pro­duce these high types of semi­ma­te­rial be­ings. But even these quasi-phys­i­cal be­ings would be in­vis­i­ble to the short-range vi­sion of Uran­tia mor­tals.

29:1.2The Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors are seven in num­ber, and they are iden­ti­cal in ap­pear­ance and func­tion. One can­not be dis­tin­guished from an­other ex­cept by that Mas­ter Spirit with whom each is in im­me­di­ate as­so­ci­a­tion, and to whom each is in com­plete func­tional sub­servience. Each of the Mas­ter Spir­its is thus in eter­nal union with one of their col­lec­tive off­spring. The same di­rec­tor is al­ways in as­so­ci­a­tion with the same Spirit, and their work­ing part­ner­ship re­sults in a unique as­so­ci­a­tion of phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual en­er­gies, of a semi­phys­i­cal be­ing and a spirit per­son­al­ity.

29:1.3The Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors are sta­tioned on pe­riph­eral Par­a­dise, where their slowly cir­cu­lat­ing pres­ences in­di­cate the where­abouts of the force-fo­cal head­quar­ters of the Mas­ter Spir­its. These power di­rec­tors func­tion singly in the power-en­ergy reg­u­la­tion of the super­uni­verses but col­lec­tively in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the cen­tral cre­ation. They op­er­ate from Par­a­dise but main­tain them­selves as ef­fec­tive power cen­ters in all di­vi­sions of the grand uni­verse.

29:1.4These mighty be­ings are the phys­i­cal an­ces­tors of the vast host of the power cen­ters and, through them, of the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers scat­tered through­out the seven super­uni­verses. Such sub­or­di­nate phys­i­cal-con­trol or­gan­isms are ba­si­cally uni­form, iden­ti­cal ex­cept for the dif­fer­en­tial ton­ing of each super­uni­verse corps. In or­der to change in super­uni­verse ser­vice, they would merely have to re­turn to Par­a­dise for re­ton­ing. The phys­i­cal cre­ation is fun­da­men­tally uni­form in ad­min­is­tra­tion.